Cognac

Cognac

Cognac is a cognac of France at 40% ABV, used in 6 drinks on this site.

Not to be confused withBrandy (The general category. Cognac is brandy made from grapes grown around the French town of Cognac and distilled twice in copper pot stills under its own legal designation.)
A bottle of Hennessy V.S. Cognac beside a small glass of the amber spirit, against a plain white background
2023 Hennessy V.S. Cognac.jpg by Jacek Halicki
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A bottle of Hennessy V.S. Cognac beside a small glass of the amber spirit, against a plain white background

Composition

Strength40% ABV
Density0.95 g/ml (estimated)
Sugar0 g per 100
Acid—
Energy231 kcal per 100
Animal originNone
Allergensnone listed

USDA FoodData Central (Survey (FNDDS)) · 2710699. USDA's Survey (FNDDS) record for brandy gives 231 kcal/100 g with no carbohydrate, sugar or fat, and 33.4 g alcohol per 100 g but no usable liquid density to turn that into an ABV, so the strength here is stated from Cognac's legal minimum bottling proof of 40% rather than derived from the record. Public domain. No measured liquid density is published anywhere in this record; the density-classes.json 'spirit-40' class is taken as the nearest fit and marked estimated.

Used in these drinks

most first

Substitutes

Bourbon: Grain rather than grape, and drier. A drink built on cognac's fruit and oak reads leaner and more spirit-forward with bourbon in its place.

A general substitute is a browsing aid rather than a drink-specific claim. Where a particular drink has a substitution worth making, it says so on its own page and recomputes the spec for it.